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Paddy was poor. Must go

Badge has been in the thick of it. Getting involved in the rucks, and some nice support play.

I hope Simmons isn't reverting to type. Flubs and penalties

McCalman was in sparkling form last year and won 8 (I think) caps. Cottrell has been a quiet achiever. A comparison of the stats would be interesting.

And on 2013 form. Unfortunately both blokes are a smidge too small.

I don't doubt you're keen to improve the rickety state of rugby across Australia, but I can't see how gifting the Force to SA and ARG rugby would help. That gives the ARU less power to negotiate against the NZRU/SARU/ARG RU, weakens any player/code development that may have gone on in Perth...

How would that affect attendance/TV viewership in Perth if the team is playing in SA/Southern Europe one week in two? Also doesn't help the ARU build the market in Perth, which was a key factor in establishing the team.

And, just very quietly, only in whispers, loving the fark out of it

But yet still the underdogs.

And that's cool. But clearly people's biases are played out in the language they use: "over east", "the wild west", and "over there". WA clearly struggles to get any real positive attention/press/money among the rugby playing states. The place struggles for rugby recognition among the states...

When you use terms like 'tyranny of distance' to downplay a perceived bias based around distance, are you not reinforcing that perception?

Here's one for you, Hodgo. Thank you

The point is, Rugby WA, for better or worse, is not a drag on the ARU. And that is a fact (or #FACT!, as you have to say on the interweb machine.)

Half-baked is right. Furphy, to be more precise. Rugby WA ie - the Force, are, as mentioned in numerous threads, solvent and had $3.97 m in cash reserves in 2011 (most recently available annual report, Dec 31, 2011, http://issuu.com/western_force/docs/2011_annual_report?e=0) No doubt they...

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/rugby-union/a/20740526/rainbow-nation-throws-up-force-x-factor/

Never did see that report, did we.

No doubt good players want to play at winning clubs. But Izzy, Beale, a Test front row, countless other Wallabies and a Springbok? Something stinks.

Dive onto the ball was guts. He turned the game with that single act.

Oh my word. The heart attack comeback kids